Sooner or later, the global instability is going to effect your home. War is never ok, but we come from there and had it not been for America's intervention, there would have been hardly anyone to tell you what really happened in Kosova.
But if the British government proposal(ala Sun micro?) was implemented ,all the storage would be on public utilty,i.e. government servers,and this embarrassing data deleted as in Orwell's 1984.
Fear the government that fears computers in the hands of its citizens(subjects).